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To: Kaslin

Look for laws banning the sale of pornography to minors to be struck down next. What a world.


4 posted on 07/05/2011 2:04:15 PM PDT by scan59 (Markets always regulate better than government can.)
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To: scan59
Look for laws banning the sale of pornography to minors to be struck down next. What a world.

The Court's majority (7-2, incidentally) re-affirmed, but distinguished, prior precedent which had upheld bans on selling pornography to minors, holding that obscenity is a historically-recognized exception to the First Amendment, but that violence is not.

23 posted on 07/05/2011 2:50:30 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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